Re: Migrating GNUstep home folder to another computer

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Patrick,


I dig out this old thread!

On 7/25/18 12:24 AM, Patrick CARDONA wrote:
> It was the same behaviour.
> As I can understand, GWorkspace checks /etc/mtab only when it loads the 
> desktop. So, when I use the workaround (hide and show again the desktop) this 
> works to show the disk icon.
> What is strange, is that when I unmount ($ udisksctl unmount -p [device_path]) 
> the disk icon is hidden as expected : so the behaviour is dynamic with 
> unmounting, not at mounting.


This has left me with investigating things further, to see if I could do 
better than "only" mtab.

mtab is important, but what shows you on the desktop a drive is the 
"removable" property, something tricky....

I did some work in GUI, it is Linux specific and hackish because Linux 
presents things only in files.

By doing that I also found a bug in GWorkspace which would explain to 
you the issue with dynamic. In my case it caused a crash! So better have 
it fixed.


I will do a better announcement after I can optimize and clean it a bit 
more, but could you try updating both GUI and GWorkspace and test again?


I can now mount and unmount disks with udev (e.g. I have also XFce 
Thunar running) and see them appear and disappear in GWorkspace.


If it helps you, then I will make an announcement and explain what it is 
about and ask for improvement inputs and perhaps portability to BSD.


Riccardo